N.Y. Real Property Law § 206: Divorced woman may release dower

§ 206. Divorced woman may release dower. A woman who is divorced from

her husband, whether such divorce be absolute or limited, or granted in

his or her favor, by any court of competent jurisdiction, may release to

him, by an instrument in writing, sufficient to pass title to real

estate, her inchoate right of dower in any specific real property

theretofore owned by him, or generally in all such real property, and

such as he shall thereafter acquire.